Can Mike Stoops live up to his own legend?

MUCH WILL BE expected of the prodigal brother now that he has officially returned to Oklahoma's football family after eight years wandering in the Arizona wilderness.

Mike Stoops' groupies apparently also believe he has the power to cure cancer, feed the starving masses and bring world peace. And they won't mind if he deals with those problems as long as he's finished before the start of spring practice.


Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=202&articleid=20120114_202_B1_MUCHWI8987

Bankrupt Solyndra seeking to pay bonuses

Now seems an unlikely time for handing out bonuses at bankrupt Solyndra LLC, but that’s the plan of company attorneys intending to dole out up to a half-million dollars to persuade key employees to stay put.Nearly two dozen Solyndra employees could receive bonuses ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 each under a proposal filed by Solyndra’s attorneys in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.The attorneys say the extra money will add motivation at a time when workers at the solar company have little job security and more responsibilities because so many of their colleagues have been fired.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/11/bankrupt-solyndra-seeking-to-pay-bonuses/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Bailey: The types of people that come up with these justifications for paying more money to their employees especially this company are mentally very sick or have their heads up their a***s! 

Yahoo dangled US$27m pay for CEO

Yahoo dangled a US$27 million pay package to lure new Yahoo chief executive Scott Thompson away from PayPal.Yahoo offered Thompson a deal that includes a US$1 million salary and a bonus of up to US$2 million this year. Yahoo is guaranteeing to pay him US$1 million of the bonus; the remaining US$1 million will hinge on Yahoo’s financial results.

Thompson will also receive stock incentives valued at US$22.5 million. The stock awards could be worth more or less, depending how Yahoo’s long-slumping shares fare under Thompson’s leadership.

To top it off, Yahoo is paying Thompson US$1.5 million to offset money he forfeited by leaving PayPal. A US$6.5 million chunk of the stock awards are also meant to offset some of the compensation Thompson would have gotten at PayPal, according to the filing.

Thompson received a US$10.4 million compensation package at PayPal in 2010. It included a US$645,000 salary. EBay has not yet revealed how much it paid Thompson last year.

Unless more money and stock is added later in the year, Yahoo will not be paying Thompson as much as former Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz, who was hired three years ago and fired four months ago. Yahoo chief financial officer Tim Morse has been running Yahoo since Bartz’s ouster.

Bartz’s compensation package during her first year on the job was valued at US$47.2 million. Much of that, though, included stock incentives that are not as valuable as the original calculations envisioned.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2012/01/08/2003522682

Bailey: I read stuff like this all the time and think, wow I could live the rest of my life in luxury on just $200,000. It blows my mind just to think about how out of touch with the rest of us these people are.  They receive a yearly bonus of 1.5 million & they actually think its a average wage, when it takes most of us a life time to make that much!

The Company Men (Movie)

If you recently lost your job, you need to watch this movie.


The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172991/

Rush on Pres. Obama vs. The Constitution

Obama is not confronting the Republicans. He's confronting the Constitution. The Republicans are not Obama's obstacle. The Constitution is Obama's obstacle.


http://nation.foxnews.com/rush-limbaugh/2012/01/05/rush-pres-obama-vs-constitution

Cygnus_X-1

The American Dream has been stolen by the greedy elite, who can never have enough, and also the illegals, who are willing to work harder for less. The American Dream rose up out of the idea that average citizens will not be beholden to government, businesses, or elitists. Slavery was gone for a good century, but it's come back strong because of the illegals and overseas outsourcing. It's shameful what corporation do these days to make a buck.


http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/05/9974429-american-dream-or-canadian-dream